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Notes
1. For other recent contributions in the elections in context series, see for example Kosiara-Pedersen (Citation2012), Garzia (Citation2013), Fenech (Citation2013), Haugsgjerd Allern and Karlsen (Citation2014), and Dolezal and Zeglovits (Citation2014).
2. Hagevi (Citation2015), for example, argues that Swedish voters have increasingly replaced party identification with bloc identification. If so, eschewing bloc affiliation would be risky for a party.
3. The announcement, just over a month after the election, that Åkesson, the Sweden Democrats’ leader, was suffering from exhaustion and was to go on sick leave probably made it eight out of eight parties that preferred to avoid an early election.